Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals (Maternity Unit)

HC Deb 30 June 2003 vol 408 cc132-3W

Mr. Wilshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date the Directorate of Health and Social Care South was first informed that a locum consultant at the maternity unit of the Ashford and St. Peter's hospitals NHS Trust was the subject of a police investigation; and by whom. [120045]

Ms Rosie Winterton

The Directorate of Health and Social Care South was first informed by the Ashford and St. Peter's hospitals national health service trust that the police were investigating the circumstances around an incident at the maternity unit on 27 May 2002.